Pork Chops and Subway Cars

Pork Chops and Subway Cars Review

Whether taking a leisurely sidewalk tour of his adopted hometown of Taneytown, MD or roaring through the tunnels of the New York City subway system, Richard Daub will make you feel that you are right there with him exploring the everyday America often unseen by those who travel these same paths on a daily basis. In this rambling collection of essays that never fails to see the humor in the world, Daub takes you behind the scenes of an 0 million dollar accounting scandal at a major global corporation where he is simply trying to earn an honest living; goes to his first small town fish fry and visits City Hall to chat with the mayor; attends a seminar hosted by a Biblical doomsday prophet who once dwelled in the caves of Palm Springs and is now warning anyone willing to listen that the apocalypse is near; follows the path of the namesake gang from the 1979 cult film classic 'The Warriors' on the New York City subways from the Bronx to Coney Island, then traces the footsteps of Bob Dylan in search of Woody Guthrie s final residence; pays a local cab driver ten dollars to give him a budget tour of Taneytown, which has only a little more than 5,000 residents and two traffic lights; and scrambles to come up with ,000 cash minutes before his little sister s wedding when she realizes that she has forgotten to pay the limo driver and is threatening to call off the ceremony if he isn t paid before it is scheduled to begin.